Books
Books from PD Allen
The first three volumes of Quantum Meditations have now been published. Here’s where you can find them.
Paperback $17.99 ($14.05 from Amazon)
Hardcover $35.99 ($27.35 from Amazon)
The following books are all pre-QM. You will find some similarities in outlook, and some differences.
Fiddlesticks
Sixteen year old Ojibwa Rene DeClaire is disillusioned and alienated from the modern world in which she lives. She would rather play her fiddle, inhabiting the backwood of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, practicing the old ways and learning to be a shaman like her Grandma Rena. Her older brother Stephen lives in the forest, hiding from the government and the Eater of Souls. Her mother Judy worries about her children and their inability to compromise with the dominant civilization. But Grandma Rena knows how important it is that the siblings and their mother find the right path. She has dedicated her remaining days to helping all three of them to open their eyes.
Soon the younger DeClaires will find themselves in the World Under the Flesh, locked into a merciless battle to save the Heart of the Wilderness and the Land Between the Sky Waters from the Horde, the Blight and a powerful and corrupted shaman known as the Ogimauh.
Along the way, they will have many adventures, joined by other characters first introduced in the Tales of da Yoopernatural, as well as new friends of myth and legend. They will find this struggle for the World Under the Flesh is also a struggle to awaken the world from which they came, the World of the Flesh. And it all revolves around the Heart of the Wilderness, a magical fiddle, and a fiddlestick.
Complete Tales of da Yoopernatural
Tales of da Yoopernatural harkens back to the tradition of spooky stories told around the campfire late at night, combining the feel of the oral tradition with modern sensibilities. In these tales the author has created a world of myth and legend, a world which looks a lot like the one we inhabit but is just a bit skewed with the occasional portal to other dimensions, appearance of mythical creatures, spirits, ghosts and more. The stories range from the prosaically dreamlike to the disturbing, without a lot of graphic bloodshed or gratuitous violence.
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Blood Moon
Connie Hillman follows her former lover into madness. In the ancient Huron Mountains, she encounters ghosts, cannibalistic Weendigo, and a mysterious giant while trying to rescue the man she cannot stop caring about, Phil Waverly, an anthropologist lost in his obsession to prove his own demented theories.
The Buck of Mulligan Plains
Henry Kincaid enters into a mythic hunt that will bring him face to face with the Lord of the Wilderness. Meanwhile, his lover, Lilith Gordon, fears that she will lose him forever.
The Secret Life of Trees
The northern woodlands are home to many strange sights. Some say the ghosts of fallen forests haunt the region, while others say it is the ghosts of the lumberjacks who felled the ancient trees. A few speak of enchantments even more mysterious than ghosts, marvels of the fallen wilderness that linger, haunting woodlands and claiming the lives of solitary hunters or backpackers. Carl Landau will soon discover the truth behind these local legends.
The Giant Killer
Five-year-old Rene DeClaire embarks on an adventure with fairies and a giant-killing dwarf.
Afraid of the Dark
Drawn on by a contrasting mixture of attraction and repulsion, will Andrew Erickson uncover what secrets lie hidden in the absolute darkness of the haunted Laughing Eagle Mine before they cost him his life, and that of his friends? Join him on his harrowing descent into a nightmare world carved out of the ancient basalt of the Keweenaw Peninsula.
On Ice
An enchanted, ancient sturgeon seeks to communicate with Bruce Torvalds, bridging the gap between man and nature. But is it already too late for Bruce to escape his social preconditioning? This tale demonstrates that the greatest struggle is not between man and nature, but between man and his own mindset.
A Killer’s Pride
Out of a misguided sense of loyalty, young Ojibwa Indian Stephen DeClaire ignores a call to follow the Red Path. He joins the army along with his friend Skip Neunan and is shipped to Iraq just in time to take part in the razing of Fallujah. Stephen finds himself the focus of a struggle between the Buffalo Maiden and the Beast of Babylon. In the fight for his soul, he learns powerful lessons about imperialism, the nature of war and civilization. Will he survive the invasion with his soul and mind intact, or will he follow his friend into the darkness?
Say EEEK to da UP, eh.
Strange Attractors
This volume contains eleven tales from the frontier of imagination, stories that are, by turn, surreal, satirical, surprising, subversive, slapstick, sensual and spiritual. And always stimulating.
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Into the Night
The poet seeks the illumination and freedom found in the darkest shadow of the night. Surreal, otherworldly, lyrical, and filled with essential intimacy and nonconformity.
Waiting for the Light
More fun than a garbage truck full of zombies, which it features, along with evil clowns and the end of the world, all of which beset our protagonist as he sits in a left turn lane, waiting for the traffic light to change.
Walt’s Bait and Cybercafé
A short and quirky vignette about Trance Jorgenson’s attempt to bring the two horse yooper town of Watersmeet into the age of the internet. What happens when backwoods Yoopers meet the world wide web? Revolution, of course.
The Conquest of Bread
A radical tale of awakening zombies. It is a tribute to Kropotkin, told in the first person plural..
Joyride
Ready for laugh-out-loud adventure? Join Captain Will Power as he tries to save Bugtown from peeping toms, rabid guard dogs, evil professors, demonic toadies, an army of zombies, religious zealots and drive by shooters. The only question is: who will protect Bugtown from Captain Will Power?
Jesus Freaks
Take a gander at 1970s era acid casualties, and the merits of what is considered a good book.
Mean and Despicable
This is the definitive history of Jim Summers, the farmer’s gunslinger. In the 1880s, tension between lumber businesses and homesteaders in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula almost rivaled the range wars further west. Jim Summers was at the heart of it.
Trouble Comes to Town
The sequel to Walt’s Bait and Cybercafé. Mad bomber, Ryan Chartier comes to Watersmeet in search of a pay phone.
Robin of the Hood
He steals from the rich and gives to the poor. A real trickster outlaw, Robin is. Hilariously devious.
Gone Gorilla
A bizarre fantasy adventure. The protagonist seeks to evade the ever present Higgs Boson. You can never outrun that gone gorilla.
Song of the Wandering Hunter
The sequel to Into the Night. The wandering hunter evades pursuit as he comes to understand the intimate unity underlying all that exists. Will he be able to pass his discovery along before he is hunted down himself?
